GoSublime: Idiotproof instructions for MarGo: Missing required environment variables: GOPATH

Go to: Preferences -> Package Settings -> GoSublimge -> Settings – User add {“env”: {“GOPATH”: “$HOME/go”}}

For anyone else with zsh on Mac OS X:

My GOPATH and GOROOT are set but for some reason MarGo wasn’t seeing them after I installed zsh. Putting them in my GoSublimge -> Settings – User (not general Settings – User, that tripped me up) fixed this issue.

My overall experience of getting this plugin working is that the instructions are inadequate. A link to the go environment setup: https://golang.org/doc/code.html would be good… With the standard disclaimer: “If you don’t know what GOPATH is go read this”.

For me the real issue was that the usage.md file stated:

See the documentation for the env and/or shell setting, both documented in the default settings file Packages/User/GoSublime.sublime-settings

When in fact there’s no documentation on those settings in any of the files. I had to google it up and it wasn’t an instant hit. I did find this article: http://www.wolfe.id.au/2015/03/05/using-sublime-text-for-go-development/ which explained the process.

Perhaps there used to be documentation on those settings, however there’s nothing in my completely fresh Sublime 3 install.

Correct, you are making a syntax mistake, the correct syntax is:

{
    "env": {
        "GOPATH": "$HOME/go:$GS_GOPATH",
        "GOROOT": "/usr/lib/go:$GS_GOROOT"
    }
}

In your example, you created two values both with the key env which means the second overwrote the first.